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Calculating incidence rates and prevalence proportions: not as simple as it seems

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, May 2019
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Title
Calculating incidence rates and prevalence proportions: not as simple as it seems
Published in
BMC Public Health, May 2019
DOI 10.1186/s12889-019-6820-3
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Authors

Inge Spronk, Joke C. Korevaar, René Poos, Rodrigo Davids, Henk Hilderink, François G. Schellevis, Robert A. Verheij, Mark M. J. Nielen

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 341 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 46 13%
Researcher 41 12%
Student > Bachelor 34 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 29 9%
Other 14 4%
Other 51 15%
Unknown 126 37%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 72 21%
Nursing and Health Professions 36 11%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 14 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 10 3%
Environmental Science 9 3%
Other 63 18%
Unknown 137 40%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 April 2024.
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#15,330,823
of 25,622,179 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#11,480
of 17,730 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#191,223
of 364,360 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#263
of 362 outputs
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